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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2007, 09:59:21 PM »
He could have been joking.  Could not have been.  Who knows?  Hard to tell sometimes.  Not everyone is good at the delivery.

Although, after listening to Miss South Carolina, I do know for a FACT it's possible for someone to be that stupid.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2007, 10:26:53 PM »
In London or Iraq and everywhere like such as...
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2007, 10:49:07 PM »
I think he was just being silly.

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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2007, 12:02:05 AM »
I also vote that he was joking...maybe.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2007, 03:48:32 AM »
Actually, in some parts of London you might need a translator . . . someone who asks "'Ow's yer trouble?" would actually be enquiring about your wife, and many Americans would make a very different connection than cigarette smoking if they heard someone was ". . . sucking a fag . . . "   grin
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2007, 04:31:01 AM »
Londonistan.

Soon you will need a translator, infidel, but not yet.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2007, 04:36:34 AM »
HOW DOES HE FIGURE OUT HOW TO BREATHE
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2007, 04:39:33 AM »
Actually, in some parts of London you might need a translator . . . someone who asks "'Ow's yer trouble?" would actually be enquiring about your wife, and many Americans would make a very different connection than cigarette smoking if they heard someone was ". . . sucking a fag . . . "   grin


Especially if they asked whether your wife is a smoker. 
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2007, 04:40:45 AM »
I hope no one takes this personally, but I can't stand British accents.
I actually like some of the slang, but the accents themselves just...annoy me? shocked
But I absolutely love Monty Python and other British comedy.  Not all accents are equal...it's just a few people I've heard talking that annoy me.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2007, 04:42:58 AM »
You're a fruitcake.  Most British accents are downright lovely.  Gov-nah. 
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2007, 04:45:42 AM »
You're a fruitcake.  Most British accents are downright lovely.  Gov-nah. 
Yea well, I didn't say all.
Or maybe I did but that was spur of the moment.
Regardless, you're a twit.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2007, 04:50:39 AM »
He might just be a few nm off being a very funny man.

The British accent is extremely diverse, there is massive variation over quite small areas. Lots are really annoying.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2007, 04:55:22 AM »
Regardless, you're a twit. 


"But I'm looking for an argument."

"Oh.  So sorry, this is abuse.  You want 12A, next door."


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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2007, 04:59:48 AM »
Some of their accents may be pleasing, but I fink cockneys sound retarded.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2007, 05:03:21 AM »
. . . the accents themselves just...annoy me? . . .
YOU try to speak proper English with bad teeth!!
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #16 on: October 26, 2007, 05:04:39 AM »
. . . the accents themselves just...annoy me? . . .
YOU try to speak proper English with bad teeth!!
You try with no teeth.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #17 on: October 26, 2007, 05:04:51 AM »
He's making fun of the press, baiting them over thier own biases over race and professional atheletes.

He was in the National Honor Society at the University of Florida.  laugh I think he knows what language is spoken in London.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #18 on: October 26, 2007, 06:26:22 AM »
Regardless, you're a twit. 


"But I'm looking for an argument."

"Oh.  So sorry, this is abuse.  You want 12A, next door."


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(Exactly the scene I was thinking of when I posted...great minds eh?)
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #19 on: October 26, 2007, 03:03:28 PM »
In London or Iraq and everywhere like such as...

That's the London to you.

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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #20 on: October 26, 2007, 03:11:09 PM »
The one that confused me was when the British chick said, "I'm sooo PISSED!" I said, "Oh, what are you pissed about?"  laugh
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #21 on: October 26, 2007, 04:11:53 PM »
He's making fun of the press, baiting them over thier own biases over race and professional atheletes.

He was in the National Honor Society at the University of Florida.  laugh I think he knows what language is spoken in London.

Really?  Now that's funny.  laugh
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #22 on: October 26, 2007, 04:13:36 PM »
England, where tossing is a national sport...  laugh

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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #23 on: October 26, 2007, 04:16:39 PM »
He's making fun of the press, baiting them over thier own biases over race and professional atheletes.

He was in the National Honor Society at the University of Florida.  laugh I think he knows what language is spoken in London.

Really? I thought the National Honor Society was a high school thing. Admittedly it has been a very long time since I was in high school, but I've never heard any mention of the NHS beyond grade 12.
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Re: NFL player learns that he won't need a translator in London.
« Reply #24 on: October 26, 2007, 04:19:20 PM »
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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. - Thomas Jefferson

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. - William Pitt the Younger

Perfectly symmetrical violence never solved anything. - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth